Russia: Navalny recovered after hunger strike, says prison authority
The head of Russia s prison service said Navalny has more or less recovered after ending a 24-day protest last month. Separately, one of his closest allies has said that his health is now generally satisfactory.
The head of the Federal Penitentiary Service said Navalny now weighs 82 kilograms
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has more or less recovered his health after he ended a 24-day hunger strike last month, and has the possibility of communicating with his family, the head of Russia s prison service said on Thursday.
Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin s most well-known critic, is serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in a penal colony outside Moscow for parole violations he says are politically motivated.
Navalny
declared a hunger strike in late March to demand better medical care in prison.
The
44-year-old opposition politician is serving a jail sentence for parole
violations he claims were trumped up.
MOSCOW
– Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has more or less recovered his
health following a hunger strike and has the possibility of communicating with
his family, the head of Russia s Federal Penitentiary Service said on Thursday.
Navalny,
President Vladimir Putin s most prominent domestic critic, is serving a
two-and-a-half-year jail sentence for parole violations he says were trumped
up. I
can say he has more or less recovered his health, the TASS news agency
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